Colorado State University – Pueblo Writing Institute sponsors Visitors Day

Pueblo- Colorado State University – Pueblo’s Southern Colorado Writing Project (SCWP) invites the public to celebrate the hard work and the ongoing success of the SCWP and its Summer Institute at a visitor’s day from 2-4 p.m. on Thursday (June 30) in the Occhiato University Center Ballroom. The Summer Institute is being held June 7-30 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., four days a week.

The visitor’s day will provide a glimpse into the Writing Project experience, share the accomplishments and hard work of the Institute Fellows, and offer information about ways the Southern Colorado Writing Project can contribute to the improvement of education across southern Colorado. Institute Fellows are inviting teachers and administrators from their schools and districts to attend the event. The Summer Institute has a total of 21 members, including 10 participants and one co-director from D60 as well as four participants and one co-director from D70. The other five participants are from Canon City, Sargent School District, Granada School, and BOCES.

Based on the proven National Writing Project model, the Southern Colorado Writing Project Summer Institute on the Teaching of Writing provides opportunities for teachers at all grade levels, K-16, and from across disciplines to:

• share their expertise,
• study current research on writing instruction and writing across the curriculum,
• develop their own skills as writers,
• prepare workshops on writing instruction for presentation to colleagues at their home
institutions and elsewhere.

During the institute, mornings are devoted to classroom discussions of assigned readings and presentations by participants, faculty, and guest speakers. During the afternoons, participants work on their own writings, meet in small groups, and develop their workshops for presentation first to the Summer Institute and later to other colleagues.

With a quarter-century of success, the National Writing Project has demonstrated that the best teachers of writing are other teachers, that contemporary academic studies in the field of rhetoric and composition have practical value for writing teachers at all levels, that writing promotes learning in all areas of the curriculum, and that teachers who are writers themselves are the most effective writing teachers. Special emphasis will be placed on strategies for helping students succeed on standardized writing tests, such as CSAP.

Additional information about the Visitor’s Day and the writing project may be directed to Katherine Frank Dvorsky, SCWP Director, 549-2236 or katherine.frank@colostate-pueblo.edu


Colorado State University - Pueblo is a regional, comprehensive university emphasizing professional, career-oriented, and applied programs. Displaying excellence in teaching, celebrating diversity, and engaging in service and outreach, CSU-Pueblo is distinguished by access, opportunity, and the overall quality of services provided to its students.